After breakfast, I headed back to my room to check on Kaylyn and to prep for math for the day. Today I would have 3 sessions to teach. Below is a picture of some of what we went through in the Bachillerato 2 class (which is learning calculus). Between last week, this week and next week, we will be working a lot with limits and tangent lines.
I got a little bit of a break after teaching 2 sessions of Bachillerato 2 in order to prep for Bachillerato 1 and once again check on Kaylyn. She ate a couple of apples and a cucumber throughout the morning, which was good. We finished up x-intercepts with parabolas and then went into how to graph parabolas given the vertex, y-intercept and x-intercept(s).
At lunch, Suyapa told me that she would send me leaves to make a tea for my throat. It is still pretty sore and I only have about 1/2 of my voice right now. I went back to the room and she met me there with the tea, letting me know exactly how to make it. I wish I would have taken pictures for you, but I didn't think to do it...probably because I made manzanilla tea many times when I lived in Mexico and this is not a foreign concept to me. This was not manzanilla, but rather a leaf that when you make the tea, turned the water a burnt sienna color. I pulled the leaves off of the branches, quickly rinsed them and then put them into a pot of boiling water. I let them boil in the water for about 5-10 minutes (time flies down here), and then took the leaves out of the pot and strained the tea through a coffee filter into a juice pitcher. I thought the tea was good, but when I shared it with Alina, she didn't much care for it.
After our 12-2pm break, Alina and I headed back to the toddler house and spent time there chatting with Laurie and Rebekah Miller while we waited for the toddlers to wake up. We played with the toddlers for a bit before walking them to the comedor for supper. We asked that they didn't prepare supper for us at the comedor because the team had invited staff and volunteers to once again dine with them tonight at 6pm.
After supper, I went with Alina (upon her request) to go see LaShawn. Alina is pretty sure she is starting to get impetigo again. Tara and LaShawn agreed and gave her the proper antibiotics for the infection to last for the next week. LaShawn let Alina know she didn't need to feel bad or embarrassed about it because being a type of staff infection, it will come and go. She let Alina that Sarah (in the office) gets this often, which actually made Alina feel more "okay" and less embarrassed about the entire situation.
We caught Noah playing soccer with the medianos down in the cancha after supper tonight (see picture below).
About 5:45pm, Noah came up from the cancha and we walked to the team house together. This would be the last team dinner we will eat while here since this team is leaving tomorrow for the States and there is not another team coming down to Emmanuel until September. I included a picture of what dinners typically look like at the team house.
After eating dinner, when we felt the first few drops of rain, we decided to walk back to our room. We lost power once again, and it did not come back on until probably 9 or 10pm (not really sure because I had fallen asleep). What I do know is that our room got really warm to the point where Kaylyn and I had cold wash cloths on our foreheads until the power came back on.
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